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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 223377" data-attributes="member: 16749">It's been a bit of an adjustment for me, getting used to not having to fiddle with my camera to get good pictures.&nbsp; Many years ago, when I was obsessively into photography, I got an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F2" target="_blank">F2</a>.&nbsp; It takes spectacularly good pictures, but you have to fiddle with it, and you have to know how to fiddle with it, to get good pictures.&nbsp; As film gave way to digital, I've had a series of much-lesser cheap point&amp;shoot digital cameras and camera-equipped cell phones, and I've never really been satisfied with them.&nbsp; Aside from no longer having to deal with film and processing, they just seemed like too big a step down from my F2.&nbsp; Just a few months ago, I finally got a D3200.&nbsp; Now, I can fiddle with it, as much as I could with my F2, but it's been very difficult to get into the mindset of accepting that I do not need to fiddle with it that way to get good pictures.&nbsp; The vast majority of the time, simply setting it to the “Auto (No Flash)” mode will get me a much better picture than any of the lesser cameras could ever hope to take, and easily in the same league as what I'd get with my F2 were I to still ever use it.&nbsp; Some part of me just doesn't want to trust the idea that a camera can take a good pictures without my having to fiddle with it as with my F2.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 223377, member: 16749"] It's been a bit of an adjustment for me, getting used to not having to fiddle with my camera to get good pictures. Many years ago, when I was obsessively into photography, I got an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F2"]F2[/URL]. It takes spectacularly good pictures, but you have to fiddle with it, and you have to know how to fiddle with it, to get good pictures. As film gave way to digital, I've had a series of much-lesser cheap point&shoot digital cameras and camera-equipped cell phones, and I've never really been satisfied with them. Aside from no longer having to deal with film and processing, they just seemed like too big a step down from my F2. Just a few months ago, I finally got a D3200. Now, I can fiddle with it, as much as I could with my F2, but it's been very difficult to get into the mindset of accepting that I do not need to fiddle with it that way to get good pictures. The vast majority of the time, simply setting it to the “Auto (No Flash)” mode will get me a much better picture than any of the lesser cameras could ever hope to take, and easily in the same league as what I'd get with my F2 were I to still ever use it. Some part of me just doesn't want to trust the idea that a camera can take a good pictures without my having to fiddle with it as with my F2. [/QUOTE]

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